Improved curtain fixture



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Lettes Parent No. 62,235, dated February 19, 1867.

'IMPROVED 'CURTAIN FIXTURE.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY OONOERN:

Be it known that I, L. A. TRIPP,l of Middletown, in the 'county of Orange, and Stateof New York, have invented a new and improved Window-Shade Fixture; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and cx act description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a front view of a window with my improved fixture. attached partly in section through the line .1:11, iig. 2. Y

Figure 2 is a vertical section of the same, taken through the line y y, fig. 1, and part being broken away to show the spring. p

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My invention has for its object to furnish an improved fixture, by means of which window shades may be raised or held in any desired position and it consists in the combination of a spring-catch, one or more radial arms, n coiled spring, and the journal of the roller, with each other, as hereinafter more fully described.

A is the casing of' the window, to which the shade B is attached. C is the roller, upon which the shade B is wound. D is tlic cap or case that contains the operating parts of the fixture. .This cap is attached to thecasing of thel window, and forms the bearing for one journal of the roller C.. The other journal of the roller may work in'bearings in the casing A, or in a cap or case similar to the case D, so as' to give a similar f appearance to both ends of the said roller. E is a spring, coiled around the journal c of the roller C, to which one of' its ends is attached. The other end of the spring E is attached to the case D. d is a partition, passing Ithrough the case D, and forming a chamber for the spring E. F is a spring', one end of which is secured to the plato of the case D, and upon its other end is form-ed a catch,f, set slightly inclined, als shown in fig. 1. Upon one side of the catehf is formed an inclined plane, terminating in a shoulder, asshown in dotted lines in 1 and 2, upon which the radial arms G catch to hold the shade B in the desired position. G are radial arms, attached to the journal e of the roller C. The arms G are flattened and set slightly inclined, so that they may be in a proper position for `catching upon the shoulder of the eatchf. This form of the catch f und arm G alsoenables the said arms to pass the said catch without catching when the roller C is revolved in the other direction. One or more arms, G, may be attached. to the journal c', but I generally prefer to use two, as operating in a more satisfactory manner. The spring E, catchl F, arms G, and journal c are so arranged that, when the roller C is revolved in one direction, that is to say, when the shade B is drawn down, the spring E will be wound around the journal c', and the shade will be held in any desired position by the arms G and spring-catch F. By drawing the shade down slightly, and then allowing th'e spring E to roll it up by uncoiling itself from the jonrnhil c, the shade may be raised to any desired point, and secured there, by slightly drawing down the shade till one of the *arms G catches upon thc shoulder of the spring-catch F. This fixture may be `applied to raising and lowering window sash, and to various other uses.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An improved window-shade fixture, formed by the combination of the spring-catch Ff', one or more radial arms G, the coiled spring E, and the journal c of the roller C with each other, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

' lhc above specification of my invention signed by me thisSd day of January, 1867.

I L. A. TRIPP.-

Witnesses:

WM. F. MCNAMARA Janus T. GRAHAM.. 

